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Siculus
Siculus
was a
legendary king
and son of
Italus
.
Thucydides
and other
Greek historians
have
suggested
that he was the
legendary progenitor
of the
Sicels
, an
Italic people
who
colonised
Sicily
three hundred
years before the
Ancient Greeks
in
1050 BCE
.
The island
was originally called
Sicania
after a previous
legendary King
called Sicanus.